Mine is a constant reflection on the mystery of the creative process and on the artist as a medium. I use a tool that is matter; mostly paper, cellotex, sand and plaster, as well as natural elements such as branches, algae and stones. I often use frottage to construct symbolic signs of the spoken language, a language that is not necessarily from our past but rather from an “elsewhere from here”, an unknown and mysterious place that is partially revealed through signs emerging from the depths to the surface. Signs being formed at the edge of reality and ready to dematerialise like dreams, if not promptly and gently captured by the work. In parallel the matter itself has its own linguistic code, revealing and strengthening the message. Thus the paper will speak with its own transparency, the sand with its abrasiveness and the cellotex with its own characteristics (its textures).
The meeting between these two orders of reality subsumes in artworks that succeed in reaching a unique character.
The matter becomes the ecco, the support and the amplifier of the underlying sign that pushes its way to the surface from the “other” place. The “voice” is a silent song that questions and calls without ever holding back. As an artist, I choose to listen to it, beyond the the noise, where the waves land in the mystery of silence.
I explore the fragility, the transience, what is hidden in the folds of reality and risks not being found. My attention is “called” by what cannot be heard.
For this reason I often choose paper; it expresses these concepts better than any other medium. It has the transparency, the fragility, the lightness and the ductility necessary to bring to reality the sign that has emerged from the depths and now lies stranded on my beach, leaving me the responsibility for it’s welcoming.
Caterina, June 2018

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